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December 2020
ArcGIS Online Workshop Hosted by BARI & NULab
In this workshop, Boston Area Research Initiative (BARI) team members will give a comprehensive overview of BARI’s COVID-19 dataset on various urban systems and phenomena, which covers topic areas such as commerce & economic activity, housing & development, urban planning & infrastructure, crime & disorder, and public health. BARI’s data consultants will present our data collection and analysis process to generate a discussion about possible research applications. Because this dataset is a particularly strong fit for spatially oriented research questions,…
Find out more »“What do the data tell us about election 2020?” panel
Please join us for “What do the data tell us about election 2020?” a panel that will feature: Erika Franklin Fowler (Wesleyan University), Jill Lepore (Harvard University), Solomon Messing (ACRONYM), and Kate Starbird (University of Washington). Each panelist will speak about their research into topics such as the twentieth-century origins of election-related data science, the false meta-narrative of voter fraud in the 2020 election, the landscape of political advertising in 2020, and the effect of COVID-19 on polling data. We will…
Find out more »January 2021
Studying News on the Open Web, and More, with Media Cloud
Led by: Rahul Bhargava and Emily Ndulue What does online news pay attention to? Which outlets are most influential? Who gets talked about? In this workshop we will introduce you to Media Cloud—an open source platform for media analysis that helps you answer all those questions. Media Cloud includes over 1.5 billion online news stories in multiple languages from across the globe, all freely searchable and including rich metadata. Media Cloud is a domain-agnostic tool that has been used by…
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